List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut
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This article lists the oldest buildings in the state of Connecticut in the United States of America. The dates of construction are based on land tax and probate records, architectural studies, genealogy, radio carbon dating and dendrochronology. Buildings on the list should be limited to the First Period of American architecture (before 1725).
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Building | Image | Standort | Built | Notes |
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Henry Whitfield House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1639 | Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899.[1] |
Buckingham House | ![]() |
Milford | 1640 | Core dates to 1640 modifications in 1725 and 1753. NRHP. [2][3] |
Feake-Ferris House | ![]() |
Greenwich | 1645 | Private home. Core dates to 1645 modifications in 1689.[4] |
Thomas Lee House | ![]() |
East Lyme | 1660 | Began as a one-room house, museum since 1897.[5] |
Deacon John Moore House | ![]() |
Windsor | 1664 | Crossing summer beams. Moore was also a woodworker known for using the foliated vine design, which depicts vines and blossoms carved in shallow relief with flat surfaces. NRHP.[6] |
Acadian House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1670 | Saltbox named after the Acadians who lived there following 1755 deportation from Canada. NRHP.[7][8] |
Dr. Philip Turner House | ![]() |
Norwich | 1670 | The house was occupied by American Revolutionary War surgeon Philip Turner. |
Nehemiah Royce House | ![]() |
Wallingford | 1672 | Saltbox, General George Washington slept here in 1775, once a residence for Choate Rosemary Hall.[9] |
John Hollister House | ![]() |
Glastonbury | 1675 | Has hewn overhang with supporting corbels. |
Leffingwell Inn | ![]() |
Norwich | 1675 | Important meeting place during the American Revolutionary War. |
Elisha Bushnell House | ![]() |
Old Saybrook | 1678 | The Colonial property includes two contributing buildings, the second being termed the "Slave House". |
Joshua Hempsted House | ![]() |
New London | 1678 | One of the earliest documented houses in Connecticut, now a museum.[10] |
Parker House | ![]() |
Old Saybrook | 1679 | Early gambrel roof. The house remained in the Parker family until the 1960s. NRHP |
Thomas Wheeler House | ![]() |
Fairfield | 1680[11] | Located in Black Rock, an area with deep colonial maritime history. Core may date to 1644. 22" wide summer beams. |
Deacon John Graves House | ![]() |
Madison | 1681 | Saltbox saved from demolition and fully restored in 1983 by a private foundation, now a museum in Madison.[12] |
Ephraim Hawley House | Stratford | 1683 | Core is a 1+1⁄2-story Cape Cod cottage modified into a saltbox, hand-riven oak clapboard in situ in lean-to attic. | |
Ward-Heitman House | ![]() |
West Haven | 1684 | Historic House Museum. NRHP. |
John Randall House | ![]() |
Stonington | 1685 | Notable for its restoration in the 1930s by early preservationist Norman Isham. NRHP.[13][14] |
Loomis Homestead | ![]() |
Windsor | 1688[15] | Part of Loomis Chaffee School, main house dates to 1688, with attached ell dating to some point between 1640 and 1688.[16][17][18] |
Elisha Pitkin House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1690 | Moved from East Hartford in 1955, interior retains many original 18th-century features. NRHP.[19] |
Jonathan Murray House | ![]() |
Madison | 1690 | Distinctive roof. NRHP.[20] |
Meigs-Bishop House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1690 | English tea room in Madison.[21] |
Putnam Cottage | ![]() |
Greenwich | 1690 | Also known as Knapp Tavern during the American Revolution.[22] |
Bradford-Huntington House | ![]() |
Norwich | 1691 | Gambrel home of American Revolutionary War officer Jabez Huntington. Claimed Huntington hosted George Washington here. |
John Whittlesey Jr. House | ![]() |
Old Saybrook | 1693 | Private residence. NRHP. |
Comfort Starr House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1695 | Original oak clapboard in lean-to attic, residence.[23] Dendrochronology in 2014 confirmed a construction date of 1695.[24] |
Avery Homestead | ![]() |
Ledyard | 1696 | Begun as a single-story, one-room house and later expanded to a two-story, two-room house by 1726. |
General David Humphreys House | ![]() |
Ansonia | 1698 | Home of the first U.S. Ambassador, now a museum. Partially rebuilt in 1733. NRHP. |
Hoyt-Barnum House | ![]() |
Stamford | 1699 | Early Cape Cod Cottage, Stamford Historical Society museum. NRHP.[25] |
Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum | Stonington | 1700 | A working farm for the last 350 years. NRHP.[26][27] | |
Eells-Stow House | ![]() |
Milford | 1700 | Served as a hospital during Revolutionary War, now a museum.[28] |
Shelley House | ![]() |
Madison | 1700 | Dated to before 1700 by J. Frederick Kelly. Chamfered summer and girts with lambs-tongue stops[29] |
Pratt House | ![]() |
Essex | 1701 | Ell dating to 1701, according to museum site. Main block dates to 1732. NRHP.[30] Historic house museum, owned for 2+1⁄2 centuries by a single family.[31] |
Abraham Coult House | Glastonbury | 1706 | Saved from demolition and moved in 1972. NRHP.[32] | |
Clark Homestead | ![]() |
Libanon | 1708 | Lebanon's oldest building. NRHP.[33] |
John Glover House | ![]() |
Newtown | 1708 | Private residence. NRHP.[34] |
Pelatiah Leete House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1710 | Oldest surviving house belonging to Leete family. NRHP.[35] |
Raymond-Bradford Homestead | ![]() |
Montville | 1710 | Constructed by a woman, Mercy Sands Raymond, in the colonial period. NRHP.[36] |
Strong House | Coventry | 1710 | Historic house museum. NRHP.[37] | |
John Tyler House | ![]() |
Branford | 1710 | Private residence, NRHP. |
Buttolph-Williams House | ![]() |
Wethersfield | 1711 | Connecticut Landmark museum.[38] |
Solomon Goffe House | ![]() |
Meriden | 1711 | Historic house museum, oldest building in Meriden. NRHP.[39] |
Black Horse Tavern (Old Saybrook, Connecticut) | ![]() |
Old Saybrook | 1712 | Private residence. NRHP.[40][41] |
Hyland House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1713 | Saltbox with framed overhang and flat plaster ceilings, now a museum.[42] Dendrochronology in 2014 confirmed a 1713 construction date.[43] |
Keeler Tavern | ![]() |
Ridgefield | 1713 | Fired upon during the Battle of Ridgefield in 1777. NRHP.[44] |
Norton House | ![]() |
Branford | 1715 | House was built in Madison and moved to Branford in 1940. NRHP. |
Edward Waldo House | Scotland | 1715 | Occupied by a single family for over 250 years, now owned by the local historical society. | |
Pequotsepos Manor | ![]() |
Mystic | 1717 | House Museum with paired summer beams. Last house restored by architect J. Frederick Kelly[45] |
Stanley-Whitman House | ![]() |
Farmington | 1720 | Saltbox with framed overhang style with carved pendants, now a museum.[46] |
Kimberly Mansion | ![]() |
Glastonbury | 1720 | Home of political activists involved in causes including abolitionism and women's suffrage. NRHP.[47] |
Samuel Huntington Birthplace | ![]() |
Scotland | 1723 | Saltbox home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Connecticut, now a museum.[48] |
Jared Eliot House | ![]() |
Guilford | 1723 | A well-preserved example of period residential architecture. NRHP.[49] |
Captain David Judson House | ![]() |
Stratford | 1723 | A fine example of early Georgian Architecture chimney and cellar date to 1638. NRHP. |
Harrison House | ![]() |
Branford | 1724 | Saltbox with overhang serves as the Branford Historical Society museum.[50] |
Notes
- ^ Historic Houses of Early America, Elsie Lathrop, Kessinger, New York, 2006 page 305 [1]
- ^ Federal Writer's Project, Federal Writer's Project, (Conn), (1938), p. 215
- ^ "Historic Buildings of Connecticut". Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ "Rediscovering the Oldest House in Greenwich". 31 May 2018.
- ^ East Lyme Historical Society website retrieved on 2009-05-11
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Deacon John Moore House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-06-10.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Acadian House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
- ^ Acadians-Guilford Albert Lafreniere website retrieved on 2009-05-13 website [2]
- ^ "Wallingford Historical Society website retrieved on 2009-05-11". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ^ Connecticut Landmarks website retrieved on 2009-05-12 Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Wheeler House, Bridgeport". 24 April 2012.
- ^ Deacon John Graves Foundation website retrieved on 2009-05-17
- ^ "NRHP nomination for John Randall House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
- ^ Historic Buildings of Connecticut website retrieved on 2021-04-16
- ^ Sizer, Theodore; Kelly, J. Frederick (December 1949). "Early Connecticut Meetinghouses". The New England Quarterly. 22 (4): 534. doi:10.2307/361951. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 361951.
- ^ "Loomis Homestead (1640)" https://historicbuildingsct.com/loomis-homestead-1640/
- ^ Harriet E.B. Loomis, "Oldest Family in America to Hold Ancestral Estate in Perpetual Possession", The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, (1906), p. 361
- ^ Derek Strahan, "Loomis Homestead, Winsor, Connecticut" (February 14, 2018) https://lostnewengland.com/2018/02/loomis-homestead-windsor-connecticut/
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Elisha Pitkin House". National Park Service. Retrieved October 17, 2018. With accompanying five photos from 1978
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Jonathan Murray House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
- ^ Front Parlour website retrieved on 2009-05-13 Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Putnam Cottage website retrieved on 2009-05-23
- ^ Connecticut: A Guide to its Roads, Lore and People, Federal WPA Project, 1938 page 165 [3]
- ^ "Using Tree Rings to Date Historic Guilford Buildings". 19 October 2016.
- ^ Stamford Historical Society website retrieved on 2009-05-12
- ^ "Stanton-Davis House".
- ^ [4] Historic Buildings of Connecticut website retrieved on 2021-04-16
- ^ Milford Historical website retrieved on 2009-05-12 Archived 2009-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "National Register form".
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- ^ Gail Gene Nettles (October 30, 1984). "NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Pratt House". National Park Service. and Accompanying 11 photos, exterior and interior, from 1984
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Abraham Coult House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Clark Homestead". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
- ^ Jan Cunningham (October 15, 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: John Glover House". National Park Service. and Accompanying 13 photos, exterior and interior, from 2000
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Pelatiah Leete House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-22.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Raymond-Bradford Homestead". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
- ^ Coventry Historical Society website retrieved on 2021-04-15
- ^ CT Landmarks website retrieved on 2009-05-11
- ^ Simmons, Gil (1 September 2011). "Oldest home in Meriden a time capsule". WTNH.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
- ^ NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Black Horse Tavern
- ^ Accompanying 10 photos, exterior and interior, from 1978
- ^ Hyland House Museum website retrieved 2009-05-11
- ^ "Using Tree Rings to Date Historic Guilford Buildings". 19 October 2016.
- ^ David F. Ransom and John Herzan (January 16, 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Ridgefield Center Historic District". National Park Service. and Accompanying 28 photos, exterior and interior, from 1982, 1983, and 1984
- ^ "Home". denisonhomestead.org.
- ^ "HOME - Stanley Whitman House". stanleywhitman.org. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- ^ Robert C. Post (August 15, 1983). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Smith Sisters House / Kimberly Mansion (pdf). National Park Service. Smith Sisters House / Kimberly Mansion--Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1973. (1.18 MB)
- ^ Samuel Huntington Birthplace website retrieved on 2009-05-11
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Jared Eliot House". National Park Service. Retrieved August 12, 2018. With accompanying pictures
- ^ "Branford Historical Society website retrieved 2009-05-11". Archived from the original on 2008-12-24. Retrieved 2009-05-11.